Mar 16 2010
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Learn about the power of Evoke! on this week’s Teachers Teaching Teachers - Wed. 03.17.10
Rachel Smith is playing Evoke too, and she will be joining us to talk about this Alternate-Reality Game (ARG) this week (tomorrow) at http://EdTechTalk.com/live at 9:00 pm Eastern / 6:00 pm Pacific USA Wednesday, March 17 / 01:00 UTC Thursday World Times
One of our guests
At Educon 2.2 in January, Paul Allison had a conversation with Suzie Boss and Jane Krauss shortly after Suzie had interviewed Jane McGonigal for WorldChanging. It was Suzie’s excited comments that led him to begin to follow her McGonigal’s work and end up at Evoke. This month, several of us in the New York City Writing Project are introducing Evoke in our English, Art, and Technology classrooms. We are working together to become mentors for our students as they also play Evoke. We’re all very excited about it, so much so that this last Saturday morning we traveled though a cold, rainy wind storm in NYC to meet for three hours, just to play Evoke together, and talk about which parts our students would need more support on and which they could do on their own. It was a lot of fun on Saturday to share some of the stories of a couple of our students who have managed to push themselves onto the Leaders board already. Our students and we have already learned a lot with Evoke. We love the project prompts and the overall structure of Evoke! Our ultimate goal this semester is to look at other games, and to have students build prototypes of games, as well as mess around with some game building. (Oh, and we’ll be planting gardens and volunteering for City Harvest too!)
Please join us!
Susan Ettenheim and Paul Allison would love to invite any teachers who are playing Evoke themselves and/or using it with their students to join us via Skype. We do these conversations on Skype. Please let us know if you want to join us on Wednesday, March 17 at 9:00pm Eastern / 6:00pm Pacific USA / 01:00 UTC Thursdays World Times.Please also join us at http://edtechtalk.com/live if you want to find our more about Evoke and what were up to this Spring!
One of our guests
Rachel Smith works for the New Media Consortium, and she writes on her blog that she has “a hard time explaining what I actually do. Some of it is writing (a lot of it, lately, which is not a bad thing). Some of it is drawing, which is pretty cool. I used to doodle in high school and get detention. Now I doodle at work and get kudos. Go figure. I also organize things and direct projects and try to be generally helpful.”Rachel wrote an wonderful introduction to Evoke on her blog,Urgent EVOKE: Agent Ninmah is Born, and she started a Discussion on Evoke, in which she is “calling all teachers!” to find ways to collaborate:
How did we get here?There have been many posts in other threads about getting a group of teachers together here on EVOKE. I’d like to pull us together. Here’s my suggestion:
1. In this thread, post who you are and what you teach — or, if you’re a teacher-type but not actually a teacher, like me, tell us what you do. Tell us also where you’re from!
2. Check out the google doc that happyseaurcin started — it has ideas about how to engage teachers in EVOKE.
3. Take a look at the wiki (http://urgentevoke.wikia.com/) and visit the Calling All Teachers page. Add your name (and a link back to your EVOKE profile, if you like) if you’d like to collaborate. If you have an idea for a project, add it to the brainstorming section.
Let’s see if we can get traction over the next couple of weeks and maybe pick an idea or two to develop more fully!
At Educon 2.2 in January, Paul Allison had a conversation with Suzie Boss and Jane Krauss shortly after Suzie had interviewed Jane McGonigal for WorldChanging. It was Suzie’s excited comments that led him to begin to follow her McGonigal’s work and end up at Evoke. This month, several of us in the New York City Writing Project are introducing Evoke in our English, Art, and Technology classrooms. We are working together to become mentors for our students as they also play Evoke. We’re all very excited about it, so much so that this last Saturday morning we traveled though a cold, rainy wind storm in NYC to meet for three hours, just to play Evoke together, and talk about which parts our students would need more support on and which they could do on their own. It was a lot of fun on Saturday to share some of the stories of a couple of our students who have managed to push themselves onto the Leaders board already. Our students and we have already learned a lot with Evoke. We love the project prompts and the overall structure of Evoke! Our ultimate goal this semester is to look at other games, and to have students build prototypes of games, as well as mess around with some game building. (Oh, and we’ll be planting gardens and volunteering for City Harvest too!)
Please join us!
Susan Ettenheim and Paul Allison would love to invite any teachers who are playing Evoke themselves and/or using it with their students to join us via Skype. We do these conversations on Skype. Please let us know if you want to join us on Wednesday, March 17 at 9:00pm Eastern / 6:00pm Pacific USA / 01:00 UTC Thursdays World Times.Please also join us at http://edtechtalk.com/live if you want to find our more about Evoke and what were up to this Spring!
